Phaeocystis (IMAGE)

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Phaeocystis

Caption

At the end of the last ice age, algal blooms of the species Phaeocystis absorbed large quantities of carbon dioxide in the Southern Ocean and thus significantly slowed the rise of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Credit

Gerhard Drebes

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